Intentions of University Graduates

More than 12,000 Maritime university students were in their final weeks of a bachelor's degree in late March 2007. New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, under the Council of Atlantic Ministers of Education and Training, together with the Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission and the Canadian Council on Learning, joined in a partnership, with cooperation from the region's universities, to conduct a survey of these students in order to gain insight into attitudes toward, and plans for, pursuing further education, as well as preparedness for further studies and the workforce. The study also provides important information on student debt at graduation.